illegitimate son?
abby
What is the story behind his mother?
Is there a picture of the guy on the web somewhere?
abby
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Wendy Dunstone
was then about 32, so he would be in his late 30's now. I don't know if
there's a picture on the web, but there was one with the article, and the
lad was more like Paul than his legitimate son. I think the mother was a
local Liverpool girl.
abby wrote in message <811a5b$vdb$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>...
Diana
>I remember seeing a newspaper article on this several years ago. The 'boy'
>was then about 32, so he would be in his late 30's now. I don't know if
>there's a picture on the web, but there was one with the article, and the
>lad was more like Paul than his legitimate son. I think the mother was a
>local Liverpool girl.
This sounds s-o-o-o familiar!! It was in the Mirror, right? Yes, it must've
been at least 2 years ago. I want to say it turned out to be a ruse, but I'll
try to dig up the text of the article.
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Diana
one from the London Observer Service (may be News Of The Day -- hard to tell)
which was posted on AOL's Beatle board May 12 1997 (they're not archived,
so....) Here's a brief summary.
The man's name is Philip Paul Howarth. He was 33 in May 1997 and works as a
lighting technician. The impression I get is that it's all his mother's doing;
Philip wanted no part of this publicity. He lives in Uxbridge, west of London.
He was born Philip Paul Cochrane on February 10 1965. His mother is Anita
Cochrane (now Howarth), age 50 at the time. She had been a regular at the
Cavern.
Supposedly, Brian originally offered her 2.50 pounds a week and expenses, but
she accepted 5,000 pounds and promised not to discuss the matter. She wanted
Paul to take a DNA test. Paul had no comment, but Geoff Baker said, "I think
Paul would think, why should he take a DNA test? He knows the child is not
his."
That's the gist of it. There are lots of quotes from Anita. Maybe the
Telegraph has something archived.
Diana
May 1997
IS HE PAUL'S SON?
Alleged kin stays mum
By DAVID HARRISON
London Observer Service
LONDON - Philip Paul Howarth was not at his home in Uxbridge, just west of
London
yesterday. Or if he was, he didn't answer the door or the telephone. The
curtains
stayed drawn all day. His black Ford Orion remained parked outside.
It was hard to blame him for keeping a low profile. After all, that's what he'd
done for
33 years. Until Saturday, when a
newspaper named him as Paul McCartney's secret son, born at the height of
Beatlemania to a woman member of the fashionable Cavern Club set in Liverpool.
Howarth was not supposed to be named until Monday, but another newspaper's
spoiling operation brought forward the revelation by 24 hours. But what does a
day matter after three decades of secrecy?
The woman Howarth lives with, hairdresser Melanie Randall, was at their
maisonette on Friday, and she disliked the media attention. Twice she called
police, claiming photographers were crawling all over her garden. Twice police
found only two of them waiting patiently outside the gate.
When a reporter dared to knock at the door, a long-haired male friend - who was
not Howarth - leaned out of a first-floor window and poured a bucket of water
over his head. Randall and the Hairy One left on Friday evening. Howarth is
believed to be staying with friends in London or Liverpool.
Neighbors were amazed at the suggestion that the nice, ordinary young man who
moved into the maisonette only a few weeks ago was the offspring of one of the
most famous people in the world.
A middle-aged woman said: ``This is the most exciting thing ever to happen in
Uxbridge. Are you sure you've got the right place?''
Howarth's ordinary maisonette in the anonymous suburb a few miles west
of London is a world away from the millionaire lifestyle of Paul McCartney,
and Howarth's mundane job as a lighting technician is a far cry from the
glamorous work of McCartney's three acknowledged children: Stella, 25, is chief
designer of the Paris fashion house Chloe; Mary, 27, is a photographer and
picture editor at her father's music publishing company, and James, 19, plays
guitar on his father's latest album.
Can they possibly be related? McCartney says no, but a ``close relative'' of
Howarth's, who sold the story to a newspaper, says there is no doubt. Howarth,
who does bear a physical resemblance to McCartney, is said to have been born
Philip Paul Cochrane on Feb. 10, 1964, his middle name giving a clue as to the
father. The mother was Anita
Cochrane,.who allegedly had a brief affair with McCartney. It was ``widely
known'' that McCartney was the father, according to the relative.
The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, paid Cochrane nearly $9,000 after the
birth,
something McCartney has not denied. According to Peter Brown, executive
director of the group's management company, the payment was made in April 1964
with a stipulation that McCartney would continue to deny that he was the
child's father and that the payment did not represent an admission of
paternity.
The mother has never spoken publicly about the former Beatle, except to deny
that he is Philip's father. Philip, who took the name Howarth when his mother
married Chris Howarth in 1975, has never tried to contact McCartney.
A DNA test would provide the answer. McCartney has never agreed to one. Because
he knows he is the father? Or because he knows the whole story is nonsense?
Jamie
> Here it is. I have an article from the Sunday Mirror dated May 11, 1997, and
> one from the London Observer Service (may be News Of The Day -- hard to tell)
> which was posted on AOL's Beatle board May 12 1997 (they're not archived,
> so....) Here's a brief summary.
>
> The man's name is Philip Paul Howarth. He was 33 in May 1997 and works as a
> lighting technician. The impression I get is that it's all his mother's doing;
> Philip wanted no part of this publicity. He lives in Uxbridge, west of London.
> He was born Philip Paul Cochrane on February 10 1965. His mother is Anita
> Cochrane (now Howarth), age 50 at the time. She had been a regular at the
> Cavern.
I agree he obviously wanted no part of the publicity; but I don't think it was the
mother's doing. I
believe it was cited as an uncle who was the "close relative" who sold the story,
just as according
to Peter Brown's book it was the uncle who at the time the guy was born pushed to
get more money. In at least one story I have from the time the mother's only
comment was that
Paul was not the boy's father.
~Jamie
Diana
Typo alert! Make that 1964.
Jamie, I think you're right (see below). The article mentions an unnamed
relative, whereas the mother was quoted openly. So it must've been someone
else.
Good catch :-)
fab4grl
must've
been at least 2 years ago. I want to say it turned out to be a ruse, but
I'll
try to dig up the text of the article.>>
Diana, I've been hearing about him since 1964 and as far as I know, it
hasn't been disproved. Paul refuses to take a DNA test.
Jeannie
Steven Dreyer
Jeannie,
Could you please provide some kind of citation of evidence--I haven't
heard of this before and would like to know where it's been reported
since '64 and where Paul is known to refuse a DNA test.
Steven
d.
Steven Dreyer <sdr...@uwm.edu> wrote:
> Could you please provide some kind of citation of evidence--I haven't
> heard of this before and would like to know where it's been reported
> since '64 and where Paul is known to refuse a DNA test.
The fellow in question is named Philip Howarth and he turns up in the
British tabloids from time to time. The tabloid articles invariably say
that Paul has refused a DNA test - I do not know of a more reliable source
confirming that. I have seen quite a few articles on this subject, dating
back to a 1964 Canadian tabloid, and I've seen a scan of the original
accusation, a flyer distributed in Liverpool in 1964 by the uncle of the
boy's mother.
Bottom line: it might be true, or it might not be true. :-) The mother's
story is a little wobbly and seems to morph over the years; it's as likely
to me that Paul was the father as it is that someone else was and she, a
frightened young girl, felt it would be convenient to name Paul as the
father. The son does bear a passing resemblance to Paul, but that doesn't
prove anything.
Karen Sexton
I have never heard of this "son", but I have wondered about this
subject many times since reading in various books (and also in Derek
Taylor's book, _Fifty Years Adrift_ in which he writes about the many
women who were silenced with $$ (the Beatles slept their way across
the globe while on tour.) Whatever that $$ was, it would be a
pittance now. I'm surprised more of these children haven't popped up,
anybody know of any others? I know McCartney is a family man, but
being a woman (and an avid fan since 1964) I find it hypocritical to
say, (about his kids with Linda) "These are my kids" and not
acknowledge the others. Any thoughts on this?
KS
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 13:27:43 -0500, "d." <dnort...@macconnect.com>
wrote:
abby
>I find it hypocritical to
> say, (about his kids with Linda) "These are my kids" and not
> acknowledge the others. Any thoughts on this?
>
Why would Paul take in a child that is not his own (Heather) and at the
same time deny one that is? It just doesn't add up to me. If this guy
really is Paul's son, there would be more going on than just some
tabloid stories.
Karen Sexton
> kse...@earthlink.net (Karen Sexton) wrote:
>>I find it hypocritical to
>> say, (about his kids with Linda) "These are my kids" and not
>> acknowledge the others. Any thoughts on this?
>>
>
>Why would Paul take in a child that is not his own (Heather) and at the
>same time deny one that is?
My point exactly- it's hypocritical...but done every day.
>It just doesn't add up to me. If this guy
>really is Paul's son, there would be more going on than just some
>tabloid stories.
I would trust Derek Taylor's account of all the paternity suits in the
60's, even though he doesn't say exactly who was the father in each
suit. There were also other accounts of this, but they slip my mind.
Maybe someone else remembers.
KS
jess...@my-deja.com
Karen Sexton schrieb:
I would trust Derek Taylor's account of all the paternity suits in the
60's, even though he doesn't say exactly who was the father in each
suit. There were also other accounts of this, but they slip my mind.
Maybe someone else remembers.
I think you mean *Alistair* Taylor, not Derek. *Big* difference as far
as credibility and motivation is concerned, I´d say.
Anyway, Alistair has said that he *believed* that this claim about Paul
being Phillip Howarth´s father was true, but of course, he does not
*know* either....
Jesse
